Daffodil Ball honors ASU employees
Each year at the annual Daffodil Ball, the American Cancer Society honors local cancer survivors. This year two of the honorees have ASU connections. Julie Isaacson is a faculty member of the College of Nursing and Health Professions and Brad Pollard is a senior majoring in Plant Science. Brian Wadley is also being honored. The ball will be Saturday, March 24, at 6 p.m. at the Holiday Inn Holidome in Jonesboro. It will feature food and entertainment, as well as live and silent auctions. Tickets are $100 per person, $150 per couple or $600 for a table of eight. For more information or to purchase tickets contact Cindy Bode, ext. 3323.

Dr. Zibluk elected press photographers' national v. p.
Dr. John B. (Jack) Zibluk, journalism, has been elected national vice president of the National Press Photographers Association (NPPA), the professional association of the nation's photojournalists, videographers, and online visual journalists. The national vice president is expected to become president of the organization the following year. The NPPA is the second largest journalism association in the country, second only to the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ). Zibluk was elected a regional director of the organization last year. He has been ethics writer and columnist for the NPPA's News Photographer magazine for four years, and he won the organization's Robin F. Garland Educator of the Year award in 2005.

Dr. Jones-Branch presents at conference, publishes
Dr. Cherisse Jones-Branch, History, presented "'May We Pray That We Be Given Strength and Faith to Stand Together': Conflict, Change, and the Charleston, South Carolina YWCA, 1940s-1960s" at the 2007 annual meeting of the South Carolina Historical Association. The meeting was held at Coastal Carolina University in Conway, S.C. Dr. Jones-Branch has also published “'To Speak When and Where I Can': African American Women’s Political Activism in South Carolina in the 1940s and 1950s." This article appeared in the South Carolina Historical Magazine.

ASU-TV to host new game show, 'ASU Trivia Challenge'
ASU-TV, the student-run cable station (channel 18 of the Suddenlink cable system) of Arkansas State University, serving Jonesboro and Bay, is hosting a game show, "ASU Trivia Challenge." A pop culture game show, the challenge will test teams from various student organizations over three nights. The tournament taping will take place Sunday-Tuesday, March 11-13, and the show will air Monday, April 2, at 10 p.m. "ASU Trivia Challenge" represents a completely different type of production for radio-TV students, and it has provided a complex and challenging learning experience. The production was undertaken for the express purpose of promoting the station, and the show was entirely planned, designed, and produced by students over the course of eight months. To register, interested student organizations should pick up forms at the ASU Student Information Booth on the second floor of the Student Union and return forms to the ASU-TV mailbox, located in room 152 on the first floor of the Education/Communications building. The registration must be filed with ASU-TV no later than 5 p.m. today. For more information, e-mail asutv@astate.edu.

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